Walking hand-in-hand to the skatepark, decks tucked under their arms, Asha Gond and Puti are pioneers of India’s burgeoning female skateboarding community – and the subject of an award-winning photo ...

Molly Earl was “just a nipper” when she started catching honey bee swarms with her dad, an amateur beekeeper, armed with nothing but a cardboard box. “Sometimes, if I was lucky, I’d get a sheet to put ...

Scientists cottoned on to jab-free vaccines There was good news for trypanophobics this week with the discovery that vaccines could one day be administered via dental floss. Trypanophobia – a morbid ...

A Scottish startup wants to turn the tide on ghost gear by crafting striking geometric plant pots from plastic recovered from discarded fishing nets. The founders of POTR reckon their ‘ocean pots’ are ...

Communities in England will be given extra powers to take over pubs and other assets threatened with closure under proposed new legislation. Under the English devolution and community empowerment bill ...

A poignant photo series has given refugee children from Gaza an outlet to express their emotions – and share their hopes and dreams There are no lenses through which the situation in Gaza looks ...

Most voters want bold climate policy, but politicians often don’t realise it. The 89 Percent Project is designed to make that public support impossible to ignore Some of the world’s most respected ...

A 200-year-old law that criminalises rough sleeping in England and Wales is to be scrapped, a move campaigners described as “a landmark moment that will change lives”. The Vagrancy Act of 1824 – ...

Scientists hailed a ‘golden age’ for cancer treatment, a cure for HIV moved closer, and a vast marine reserve was created, plus more good news ...

Optimism isn’t everything, but it’s seriously useful, reckons Sumit Paul-Choudhury. He draws on history and science to make his case In the months after his wife’s death from ovarian cancer, Sumit ...

How might animals have a stake in democratic processes? How do we truly hear what they want? This project aims to find out What would change if forests, waterways and wildlife were recognised as more ...

What would change if forests, waterways and wildlife were recognised as more than just resources? The idea has been debated ever since Prof Christopher Stone posited in a 1972 issue of the Southern ...